Tag Archive: Commuting


>Strawberry Fields Forever

Filed under: Manhattan
December 8, 2009

>I was having commuting problems this morning, actually starting last night. When I was going home my card wouldn’t swipe. I kept getting this message to ‘swipe card again at this terminal’ when I went to the other terminal to try it I got the message, ‘card was just used’. ARG! so frustrating. Since I didn’t want to wait 15-20 minutes I used my other metro card, the one where I have to pay for each trip.

Then this morning coming into work I was happily plugged into my iPod and after we stopped at Cortlandt they made an announcement. I couldn’t hear what the announcement was but all of a sudden people who had just sat down jumped up. The woman beside me, who had just sat down and gotten out her book, closed it and put it back in her bag. I knew what that meant. Equipment change, we had to change trains at Croton. What a pain. All this time my right eye was bothering me and I had forgotten to put more money in my change purse for the day. So I stopped at the bank on the way into work, after I got to work I took my contact lens solution into the bathroom and took out my contact, rinsed it, looked at it, put it back in. Still hurting, so I took it out again, this time I saw a tiny tear in the contact. So I only had one contact in and was having a hell of a time doing my work.

None of this deterred me from going to Strawberry Fields after work. Em and Tigger were already up there. I stopped and got flowers, Em said they were too pretty to leave, I said, ‘they were cheap.’ She said that was fine, next year for the 30th anniversary I will get roses. There were a lot of people there I won’t hazard a guess how many, but they were all circled around the mosaic singing and playing music so I couldn’t get to the mosaic (I took this picture, just not today). Em said some people were leaving flowers at the plaque so we walked down there, past the pot smokers, someone had a lit a candle and I put my pretty purple flowers there. I forgot my camera so no pictures, besides it was dark by then and I still haven’t found out if the night feature works on my camera. Next trip I promise.

Turned out to be a pretty good day after all, except for the blisters on my toes because I was wearing my boots. I wasn’t expecting to walk all the way to Central Park but when I got to Time Square I couldn’t find the subway because there were too many people (don’t try to figure it out, just smile and wave).

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>The flu is here

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November 11, 2009

>Gwen has been diagnosed with swine flu. I have diagnosed myself with the same thing, or maybe something similar.

I had great plans to blog about my crappy week last week, starting with the fact that I forgot my November pass. I was ok on the way in but had to use my MetroCard for the subway, and going home I didn’t have enough money on the card and then had to run around to find a subway station that would renew my card. Then that evening the Yankees lost game 5.

Anyway, after all this time I have kind of forgot all I was going to say, about going to the parade and getting squished and seeing a fight and the fighters leaving with the NYPD, then getting the flu and feeling like crap all this week.

Hopefully my next post will be more cheerful.

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>Troubles

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October 29, 2009

>Right now we are down to one car. Here is how this happened. Em's van was having trouble, it wouldn't start one day, and then it did. D thought he had figured out the problem, then he left for Canada in the new car. He left the day we came back from Buffalo. Then one day this week, I think it was Monday, the van wouldn't start again. Fortunately Stitch and Gwen had not left for DCC yet, however, when it warmed up the van started. So the mornings have been kind of stressful for the others, yesterday it was raining and Em had to worry about getting home in the rain. This morning at the train station, Stitch was making faces. His reason? "I am trying to make myself happy because I have to take the bus today." How quickly they get used to driving.

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>Monday monday

Filed under: Miscellanea — 1 Comment
September 21, 2009

>It may appear to the casual observer that I am back to the present.

What has happened however is that on the drive to the train station this morning, I remembered details of my drive to the train station Friday when Gwen and I went down to the city. Like how I went to Allsport and then stopped to get a diet Pepsi when I really didn’t have enough time to. When I got home I threw my makeup in my purse and we left with just enough time to get there, then got stuck at the light because of a school bus. I was ready to scream. We made it in time to buy a ticket before the train pulled in.

Then I started to wonder are these details that would make the story more interesting, or minutia that drives away readers? Since this blog publishes to my Facebook wall, my count on sitemeter has gone down, but that doesn’t necessarily mean my readership has gone down. I know people are reading on Facebook because they are commenting.

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>I can’t believe I did this

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September 20, 2009

>Wednesday I got up to get ready for work as per usual. Stitch was up to take me to the train, like always. Of course he has me drive, for some reason he doesn’t like driving first thing in the AM. I pulled out of the driveway and there was something in the road across the street, so I squinted to see what it was, it was then I realized I didn’t have my contacts in. Of course there was no time to go back and get them, so I just didn’t say anything (why freak the poor boy out?) and just drove to the train station.

I have no idea how many people I may have snubbed cause I couldn’t recognize them and so didn’t say ‘Hello’. I did put them in before I went to church. Then as I was looking up at someone giving a demonstration, and could see their face clearly, for some reason I was amazed at the clarity!

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>My walk to work and a WTF?

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September 1, 2009

>I took these pictures the other day, with my NEW camera, and I just don’t get it.

For those of you who don’t know, I work in Queens, NY. I take the train to the city (GCT) then the subway to Queens (which is part of NYC, unless you live in Manhattan). When I get off the subway, I have to walk across 6 lanes of traffic past the Pulaski Bridge. A side street, the turn lane (1)[leads to the bridge], two lanes going one direction (2,3)[one side of the bridge], two lanes the other direction (4,5)[the other side of the bridge] and lastly the turn lane coming off the bridge (6). Now it used to be that this had to be navigated without benefit of a crosswalk or traffic signals. Then one day, I noticed all these warning cones up and men with yellow vests and big machines. They were installing walk signals and painting a crosswalk. But they did more.

See what they did? They removed part of the curb and put in a ramp, I’m guessing for wheelchairs. This is past the first turn lane, and this was not always like this. Now after you cross the two lanes going over the bridge, there is a medium and there . . .

They made a nice little path. The next patch of concrete is like the first, they took out the curb and put a ramp, and then you come to . . .

a CURB! Can you imagine, you’re in a wheelchair and you go over the first ramp and then through and up and over again, you moving along all nice and happy (relatively speaking of course) and then all of a sudden, a freaking curb? WTF?

The car is in the way, the curb goes down on the other side so you can roll up it, but still, they removed the curbs on the other ones, why not here? Why do you have to go around the corner on this side, the busy side of the road? Hmmm?
These pictures were taken the morning after my mom told me about how in the town next to her the town put in a totally unnecessary round about. And then the town that she lives in, not to be outdone put in one of their own, not only unnecessary but too small for the trucks to get around. That is probably why I finally noticed this.
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>This is how my brain functions

Filed under: Miscellanea
August 28, 2009

>or maybe I should say disfunctions. This happened yesterday and I completely forgot about it while I was blogging last night.

Yesterday Stitch needed my car, I asked him while he had it to check the air in the tires and told him how to do it. When I got home, first they didn’t open the train doors for forever! O.K. it was only like 5 minutes but when you’ve been on a train for over an hour and you’re at your stop, you want to get off and go home, not stand there waiting for the doors to open! Then when I get in the car Stitch tells me he didn’t do what I asked for two reasons (1) he didn’t have time (big eye roll); (2) he doesn’t know how to do it since he has to watch someone do something to learn how to do it. Since he had never watched anyone check the air in tires (yeah, right) he doesn’t know how to do it. This led Tigger to say, “Don’t get married ’cause you’ve never watched porn.” Please say you get the connection so I don’t have to explain it.

So after the train doors not opening and me sending a text message to Tigger saying ‘Let me out of here NOW!’ Then having to stop to put air in the tires by the time I got home I didn’t feel like going to Allsport. So I had Tigger drive up to Ron’s. So instead of burning calories I consumed them. Got to stop doing that.

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>I’m not having such a great day

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August 25, 2009

>After oversleeping and not getting to work until 8:10, I then realized I had no more oatmeal. I went across the street to get an everything bagel with cream cheese. Which he didn’t have, so I had to have one with butter *yuk* and it was burned.

My annoying co-worker is back from vay-cay and wasted no time getting back on my sh** list. A good thing that happened is I got a seat by myself on the MetroNorth train.

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>My earrings came today

Filed under: Beauty, Weather
August 22, 2009

>and this is funny. You remember my previous post, they are wee tiny hoops. The FedEx box was one of the medium size boxes. About six times the size of the box the hoops were in. Both the boys and I thought that was very funny.

I left work early because of a threatening storm. It was just starting to rain which was good for two reasons, one I did not have an umbrella, I mean do I ever, and also because it had just started there were no puddles in the road. I have come to believe that when you are waiting to cross the street and there are puddles in the road the cars speed up so they can splash you more! Oh I forgot the third reason, after it had rained a while the train started having track and signal problems.

Tigger needed to deposit a check so I took him up and then we went to the mall, I wanted to look at more earrings. No, you can never have too many pairs of earrings! I ended up with a pair of gold and ruby hoops. They were on a great sale, and you know I cannot resist. Tigger found a polo shirt he wanted. So we both ended up with something new.

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>Commuting

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July 9, 2009

>Yesterday and today I did not have a boring commute. Now, as much as I don’t like to be bored, I like boring commutes. Getting to work without excitement is the way I like to start my day.

First thing yesterday was I overslept. I forgot to change my phone from vibrate to loud so I didn’t hear it. So I knew I wasn’t going to make the 5:57 a.m. train. Then when I got in my car (with just enough time to catch the 6:18 a.m., as per usual), I couldn’t find my keys in my purse. So I had to think back, I didn’t drive myself to the train station the day before, so when was the last time I had my keys? Hmm, when Tigger drove to Ron’s. So I went back in the house and looked in the rack with all the keys and there they were. So I got back in my car, was thinking, I might make it and took off. When I was driving down the road to the train station, people were walking up the sidewalk, away from the station. Not good. It had rained the night before and the tunnel was flooded. So I drove around to the other parking lot, so I could take the stairs over the track, driving down into that lot I watched the 6:18 a.m. train pull away. I also had to go to the bank so there was no hope to be on time now. The only good thing was the train wasn’t crowded, probably cause all the people from the ferry missed the express train.
Today I thought I was fine. Caught the 5:57, got a seat facing forward. As we pulled into Croton, the conductor announced we were changing trains. Grr! So we all left the one train and got on another. Then we came in the lower level. Someone said, ‘That’s MTA for you, less service, more money.” I’ve never come in on the lower level, we had to walk up a lot of stairs.

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